These stakes don’t serve any purpose , spindly and weak they break if you apply pressure driving them in and the green paint on it washes off giving you brown bamboo!!. Best to spend more and get the uniform diameter stronger plastic stakes whose color does not wash off.

These stakes worked perfectly to stake my cosmos flowers. No need to pound them in. I just pushed them into rain soaked ground and they went in perfectly. I don’t know that you would want to try them in dry ground since they are quite thin and not made to take a hammer.